Method of page numbering sheets for books



Sept. 15, 1931. D. A. M INTYRE I 1,323,592

' METHOD OF PAGE NUMBERING SHEETS FOR BOOKS Filed July 7, 1927 wueutozPatented Sept. 15, 1931 UNirEo STATES PATENT orrics DAVID A. MCINTYRE,OF NEWARK, NEVI JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T EMIL L.

MUELLER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY METHOD OF PAGE NUMBERING SHEETS FOR BOOKSApplication filed July 7,-

This invention'relates to a method for pagenrumbering sheets for books,and an object of the invention is toprovide an improved method by meansof which the numbering of pages may be simplified and ex thickness forhandling and binding. In order to' properly number the pages so thatthey will read consecutively through the severalsections of the book itis apparent that numbers placed on the succeeding sheets as they issuefrom the main printing press, or otherwise, will not be in numericalsequence, and it is therefore an object of the present invention toprovide a method which: will be readily adapted to the printing ofcorrect numbers in appropriate sequence so that when the sections, orsignatures, are made up: and bound into a book the numbers will appearin proper numerical sequence in the completed book.

' In certain forms of books, such as in rec- 0rd books of differenttypes, it is desirable that each two adjacent pages throughout the bookbe numbered with identical numbers so that the two pages appearing forinspection 135 whenever the book is laid open will have the same number,and it is therefore a further object of the present invention to providea method of so numbering the sheets that when they are bound intosections, or signatures, Q and the sections are placed side by side inthe book the pages appearing for inspection as indicated will bear likenumbers.

A further detailed object is to provide a method according to whichsheets fed one 46 after another through a printing mechanism andconsecutively printed with different page numerals at different pointsthereon will, upon issuing from the printing mechanism in signatureform, present their page 50 numerals in numerical sequence throughout1927. Serial No. 204,108.

the signatures individually and collectively.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less specific thanthose referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed outin the course of the following description of the elements,combinations, arrangements of parts and applications of principlesconstituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplatedwill be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as a part of thisspecification, and in which I have shown merely a preferred form ofdevice by which toperform the present method Fig. 1 is a diagrammaticalside elevational view of a portion of a numbering machine.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view, partly in section, of the structure appearingin Fig. 1. i

Fig. 3 is a view illustrating two simple book sections such as may benumbered by this machine. w

Fig; 4 is a digrammatic view, similar to that seen in Fig. 1, but on asmaller scale,-and illustrating an arrangement whereby the four pagenumbers usually required upon each sheet of paper in a book may beapplied by the useof only two platen wheels whereas in the arrangementsuggested by Fig. 1 four separate platen wheels are required, and

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 3 but showjjng a different arrangementof page numers.

In order to fully understand the present method and its mode ofapplication a detailed description of the mechanism illustrated will beof assistance asrfollows, said mechanism corresponding to that shown anddescribed in the pending application of Emil L. Mueller, Serial No.24,728:

The reference character L indicates a type-wheel about the periphery ofwhich is a series of spacedprojections as 1, 2 and 3 the outerperipheral faces of which are each cut or otherwise formed as printingtype each projection being'shaped to provide a different figure andthere being as many projections as there are separate sheets of paper tobe numbered for comprising the bookin course of being printed.

Adjacent to the type-wheel is a platen wheel G carrying a single platenmember H on the periphery thereof which is adapted to press aninterposed sheet as 4 against one of the type-projections on thetype-wheel.

Any suitable means may be employed for holding the sheet 4 and causingit to be carried around with the wheel G, there being indicated for thispurpose a suitable gripper 5 arranged to engage the forward edge of thesheet as the sheet comes off of a delivery table 6 and to clamp saidedge of the paper against a part 7 of the platen wheel in a wellunderstood manner.

The table 6 may be understood to be a part of the main printing press bymeans of which the sheet has been previously printed, or otherwisetreated, so that it contains all of the reading matter or otherwisepreparatory to binding.

The platen member H is preferabl adjustable circumferentially of thewheel and for this purpose the drawings indicate said member as beingformed upon a carrying plate 8 which laps over the side of the wheel Gand which carries retaining devices 9 extending into an undercut groove10 formed circumferentially of the wheel G. By loosening the devices 9the platen member may be slid around the Wheel G, the devices '9meanwhile sliding in the groove 10, to any position desired and may beheld in such position bytightening thedevices 9. By this means theplaten member may be caused to stand nearer to or further from the clampmember 5 and therefore nearer to or further from the forward edge of thesheet 4 so that the figure from the type-wheel may be impressed at aselected position upon the sheet.

It will be understood that in order to properly complete this adjustmentthe wheels L and G are at that time freely rotatable relative to eachother so that any selected typeprojection on the type-wheel may be made.to register with the platen member.

It is intended that after the sheet, as 4, has passed between. thewheels L and G and has received therefrom the impression of one figurefrom the type-wheel it will then pass between two further wheels forreceiving the impression of a second figure, then between twofurtherwheels for receiving the impression of another figure, andfinally be tween a fourth pair of wheels to receive the final figure,thus impressing onto the sheet, and in proper locations thereon, thepage'numbers of the four pages which the sheetis to comprise when fixedin place in the book.

In the drawings Fig. 1 there is shown in association with the wheels Land G a portion as 11 of the nextpair of wheels for operating upon thesheet after the sheet has passed between the wheels L and G. Adjacent tothe under-side of the wheel G is a table 12 upon which the sheet 4 willbe deposited after leaving the wheel G. An suitable means, as forinstance the push device 13, may be employed in association with thetable 12 to slide the sheet 4 off of said table and onto the wheel 11where it will be gripped and carried on its way.

The sheet will pass similarly through the four sets of wheels but sinceeach set is of identical construction and operation only one set isherein shown and described in detai The wheels L and G are fixed tosuitable carrying shafts 14 and 15 respectively. These shafts aremounted in appropriate bearings 16 and 17 formed in a frame piece 18.Upon the shaft 14 is mounted a gear 19 which is freely rotatable uponsaid shaft and which stands in constant mesh with a gear 20 fixed uponthe shaft 15.

Upon the shaft 14 is a second gear 21 which is fixed to said shaft andwhich stands in constant mesh with the teeth of a drive pinion 22. Thepinion 22 is mounted upon a bearing shaft 23 and is connected to bedriven by any appropriate means as for instance adrive gear 24.

Mounted upon the shaft 14 is a third gear 25 also standing in constantmesh with the same teeth of the pinion 22 as the gear 21. The gear 25however, although of the same pitch diameter as the gear 21 has onetooth less than said gear 21 and on this account will rotate at aslightly faster speed than the gear 21, a complete rotation of the gear21 being in fact accompanied by a complete rotation of the gear 25 plusthe distance of one tooth of the gear 25.

The gear 25 is connected with the gear 19 by a suitable clutch device,as for instance the pin 26 carried by the gear 25 and engaging within asocket 27 provided in the gear 19, so that said gear 19, andconsequently the gear 20, both of which are of the'samepitch diameter,will rotate with the gear 25, as will also the wheel H.

The gear 21, being fixed to the shaft 14, will cause the wheel L to movewith it and consequently at a correspondingly slower speed than thewheel G.

There are as many type-projections onthe wheel L as there are teeth inthe gear 25. The type-projections are thus spaced apart a distancecorresponding to the distance between the teeth of the gear 25 and itwill be apparent therefore that each time the platen member H comesaround into contact with the type-wheel it will engage a succeedingtype-projection of said type-wheel.

Referring to Fig. 1 the platen member is shown as in engagement with thetype-projection carrying the figure 1. At the first rotation of the twowheels the platen member will come into engagement with thetypeprojection carrying the figure 2. At the next 'rotationit will comeintoengagement with the type-projection carrying the figure 5. At thenext rotation it will come into engage ment with the type-projectioncarrying the figure 6, and so on.

When the full cycle of the type-projections on the wheel L has beencompleteda new cycle will begin without interruption, and here it willbe noted-that the total number of type-projections-on the wheel L isdetermined by the total number of pages: which are to appear in thebookbeingprinted. The wheel L would carry projections for-onefourth ofthe total number of pages and the corresponding wheel of the other threesets of wheelswould each carry another fourth.

The figures appearing upon the type-projections of the several wheelswill of course be given a sequence accordingto: requirements. Assuming,for example, that the machine is being utilizedfor printing the foursheets of paper comprising the two booli sections illustrated in Fig. 3,and noting that in these book sections the adjacent pages'b'ear likenumbers, the first pair of wheels, as L and G, will print onto the firstsheet the page number, or figure, onto the second sheet the page number'2, onto the third sheet thepage number 5 and onto the fourth sheet thepage-number 6. The second pair of wheels would print on the first sheetthe page number 4, onto the second sheet the page number 3, onto thethird sheet the page number 8, and onto the fourth sheet the page number7. The third pair of wheels would print onto the first sheet the pagenumber 3, onto the second sheet the page number 2, onto the third sheetthe page number 7, and onto the fourth sheet the page number 6. Thefinal pair of wheels would print nothing on the first sheet, onto thesecond sheet it would print the page number 1, onto the third sheet thepage number 4, and onto the fourth sheet the page number 5.

As these sheets issue one after the other from the machine and arefolded into sections as indicated in Fig. 3 the page numbers would readin proper sequence as illustrated.

The gear wheels 21, 22 and 25 and the typewheel L constitute a unit,that is to say they are co-operative with each other to properly numberthe pages of a book having a given number of pages. In order to numberthe pages of a book having a different number of 1 pages the partscomprising this unit would be removed and substituted by another unitthe parts of which would be co-operative in the same manner but therebeing a different number of type-projections on the type-wheel and acorrespondingly different number of teeth in the gears. In the instanceillustrated the gears 21 and 25 may be readily detached by removal ofthe retaining pin 28. The pinion 22 may be removed by removal of its A;retaining pin 29, and the type-wheel may be reme ved'by removat oi itsretaining pin 30. 1' Any suitable means, as for instance the roll 3l1maybe provided for inkingthe printin-g surface of the type pojeetions-onthe type wheel. I

While this inventionis applicable to the printing of page numbers invarious types of books; it is nevertheless peculiarly adapted to thenumbering of pages in books where theprinted matter on all of the pages:is

alike, as forinstance= in certain classes of receipt an'd-record bookssuch as are used. by connecting agents for insurance companies and otherlarge organizations, since in these instances the page numbers I may bereadily applied by this invention upon: the succeeding sheets as theyissue from the main printing press in the manner above described andthus the book sections, and finally the books, may

be printed one after the other ready for im- 1 mediate binding.Any-desired number of books may be thusprinted and bound wholly withoutreference to how many books are required OYhOW many have beenprinted-,or otherwise, ashas been anaggravating requirement in thenumbering of pages of this class of books heretofore.

As has" been hereinabove suggested the modification Fig. oifers anarrangement whereby the use; of two' of the platen wheel's required forprintingthe page numbers at the four different localities as describedwith respect to- Fig. 1' may be omitted; Instead of employing fourseparate units each containing' a platen wheel and a: printing wheel theillustration Fig. &- proposes only-"two separate units-each comprising aplaten wheel as and two printing wheels 32 and 33. As: thezsheetofipa-perpa's 4 passes about the first platen wheelit receives theimpression of two pagenumbers: at proper locations thereon from the twoprinting wheels. associated with that platen wheel, these impres= sionsbeing'ofcourse both. on the same surface of the'sheet; Upon leaving. thefirst platen wheel the sheet iscaught by the gripper 5 and carriedaround the second platen wheel. passingaround the second platen wheel itreceives the impression of twopage numbers at proper locations on. itsopposite surface. by

means of the pair ofprinti'ng. wheels 32 and 33 associated withthe'second platen-wheel, after which; it deposited ontothe deliverytable 7 Suitable means. will. of course. be provided to prevent; thedifferent platen: members H oneachplaten-wheel fromproducingimpressionsfrom more than. one; printing wheel, as for instancethe; platen members may; be placed; slightly" out". otl alignment with:re;-

spect to seach: othenasswa'll likewise theprintiingwheels', so that.noaprinting pressure will be producedi excepting against the type 025the proper printing wheel.

Itwill bezunde'rstood of course that the drive mechanism for the wheelssuggested by this modification will be substantially the same as alreadyset forth with regardv to the disclosure Figs. 1 and 2.

Although the above description is applied to sheets folded only a singletime-for forming only four-pages, obviously the principle of operationwill apply equally to sheets folded two or more times for formingadditional pages. There will be a separate printing wheel for each pageand the character of the;various printing Wheels will be arranged inproper order for impression upon the respective pagepaces of the sheetas will be readily understood. ,7

From the foregoing the improved method of page-numbering sheets forbooks will be apparent, namely, that the sheet are fed one aftertheother through the mechanism, passing separate printing wheels, as'32and 33 associated with platen wheel G, said printing wheelsconsecutively printing different page numerals on spaced portions of onesurface of each sheet, the sheets then passing other printing wheels, as32 and 33 associated with platen wheel H, the latter printing wheelsconsecutively printingdifferent page numerals on spaced portions of theother surface of each sheet, the printing of all of the page numeralsbeing in such relation, asto placement and numerical arrangement, thatwhen the sheets leave the mechanism and are assembled in sections orsignatures the numbering of the pages-of each section or signature, andin fact of the several sections or signatures collectively, will be innumerical sequence. I

It is understood that the term numerical sequence is intendedtocomprehend either an arrangement of, the numbers such that eachadjacent page is differently numbered and in sequence, or an arrangementofthe numbers such; that two. opposing pages upon the two faces of allof the sheets being such that when the sheets are thus folded insignature form the page numerals appearing upon the signature Will be ina predetermined sequence.

2. The method of page numbering sheets for books consisting in feeding asheet and consecutively printing different non-consecutive page numeralson spaced portions on one face of the sheet, continuing feeding of thesheet and printing different non-consecutive page numerals on spacedportions of the opposite side of the sheet in such relative relationthat when the sheets are assembled in a signature the page-numeralsappearing upon the signature will be in a predetermined sequence.

3. The method of page numbering sheets for books consisting in feeding asheet and consecutively printing different non-consecutive page numeralson spaced portions of one face of the sheet, continuing feeding of thesheet and printing different non-consecutive page numerals on spacedportions of the opposite side of the sheet in such relative relationthat when the sheets are assembled in a signature two opposing pageswill have similar page numerals.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

DAVID A. MCINTYRE.

throughout the section or sections will have similar numerals, thepai rsof numerals in this latter instance being in sequence.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is V e 1. The herein describedim'ethod ofpagenumbering sheets for books, which method consists in feeding a sheetand printing page numerals on spaced portions of one face of thesheet,continuing to feed the sheet and to print page numerals onspacedportions of the opposite face of the sheet, feeding sufficientothersheets to make up a signature and printing page numerals upon theopposite faces of said other sheets successively in the mannermentionedfor the first sheet, plac- -ing-said sheetsin pileformation in the orderas they are successively printed, and

then foldingthe pile into signature form, the arrangementofjhelnum'erals printed

